Beirut blast: How a disaster brought three strangers together
When the Beirut blast destroyed a tower block many people were missing, including an Ethiopian woman who lived there. With the help of two Lebanese people she’d never met, and Instagram, she was found and reunited with her family in Addis Ababa. The building collapsed after an explosion, caused by improper storage of ammonium nitrate, killing more than 200 people, wounding thousands, and devastating swathes of Beirut. Eleni Balcha was working as a maid for a woman in the block, but after the explosion her employer had no idea where she was. ...
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